The Gardener's Dictionary of Horticultural Terms

Rating:
Summary: Everthing from Abatis to Zymolysis...
Review: Too bad this book has to be special ordered but I guess it's not a best seller. Thank goodness Amazon provides a service that allows you to find out something about a book not readily available. This book is for serious gardeners who really want to know what a "knar" is (an upward growing root of swamp trees which enables them to breath). Did you know trees breathe? Sure they do, and what they exhale we breathe.

But this book is also for beginners and the merely curious. You can find out about "kitchen gardens", "NPK" and "root-rot." In other words, when your garden book is written in such a way that the author of the book assumes you have knowledge you don't have, you can use this book to look up the terms you don't understand. Think you won't need it? Do you know what "NPK" stands for? If not, you need this book. NPK is the symbol for nitrogen for leaves-phosphorus for roots-potassium for flowers and fruits. You can't grow anything without it and ALL fertilizer companies list the amounts available in their product.

Rating:
Summary: Everthing from Abatis to Zymolysis...
Review: Too bad this book has to be special ordered but I guess it's not a best seller. Thank goodness Amazon provides a service that allows you to find out something about a book not readily available. This book is for serious gardeners who really want to know what a "knar" is (an upward growing root of swamp trees which enables them to breath). Did you know trees breathe? Sure they do, and what they exhale we breathe.

But this book is also for beginners and the merely curious. You can find out about "kitchen gardens", "NPK" and "root-rot." In other words, when your garden book is written in such a way that the author of the book assumes you have knowledge you don't have, you can use this book to look up the terms you don't understand. Think you won't need it? Do you know what "NPK" stands for? If not, you need this book. NPK is the symbol for nitrogen for leaves-phosphorus for roots-potassium for flowers and fruits. You can't grow anything without it and ALL fertilizer companies list the amounts available in their product.